This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The ends of discipline in the church are, .' 1. The reclaiming of such as fall into sin. "Restore such an one." "That the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." Gal. vi. 1. 1 Cor. v. 5. 2. The preventing of sin in others. "Them that sin rebuke before all, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The ends of discipline in the church are, .' 1. The reclaiming of such as fall into sin. "Restore such an one." "That the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." Gal. vi. 1. 1 Cor. v. 5. 2. The preventing of sin in others. "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear." 1 Tim. v. 20. 3. The purity of the church. "Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" "Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are profess to be unleavened;" that is, cast out iniquity, that ye may be-a pure society, as ye profess to be. "For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 1 Cor. v. 6, 7; and iii. 17. 4. The character of the church and the honor of religion in the view of the world. "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? rt is thenceforth good for nothing, but, to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." Matt. v. 13. 5. The preventing the divine displeasure. "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." 1 Cor. xi. 29--32. These ends of discipline show its importance. But of this I shall speak hereafter. The means of discipline are private persuasion and reproof, admonition before the church, suspension, and exclusion from its communion. 'No other pains or penalties whatever, such as fines, penances, imprecations, (such as the Catholics use) and the like, are allowable. The New Testament knows nothing of them. The discipline it inculcates is wholly of a corrective and moral kind, and not punitive. 8-' ' Cases requiring discipline are commonly mentioned under two classes; namely, private offences, and public offences. PRIVATE OFFENCES. Private offences are those which are...
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